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||1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (d. 2004) | ||1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (d. 2004) | ||
||Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (d. 6 January 1920) was a Danish mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics. | |||
||1921 – Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013) | ||1921 – Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013) | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.
